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- 1881: Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also
- ... cello lessons, however the musical knowledge he acquired from his mother helped him share in his first wife Hadley's interest in the piano (1). Hemingway received his formal schooling in the Oak Park public school system. In high school he was mediocre at sports, playing football, swimming, water basketball and serving as the track team manager (1). He also worked on the school newspaper called the Trapeze. Hemingway graduated in the spring of ...
- 1882: To Kill A Mockingbird: Great Quotes by the Characters
- ... Scout, simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one's mine I guess. You might here some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep your fists down." Page 80 Chapter 9 Talking to Scout: "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try and win." Page 80 ... you couldn't remember too well, could you?" Page 189 Chapter 18 Talking to Scout: "Most people are (nice), when you finally see them." Page 284 Chapter 31 Talking to Scout: "I never went to school," he said, "but I have a feeling that if you tell Miss Caroline we read every night she'll get after me, and I wouldn't want her after me." Page 36 Chapter 3 ...
- 1883: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Everybody Has To Find Out About Living For Themselves
- ... boats in Savannah, and all of us slaves was free. So Ah run got mah baby and got in quotation wid people and found a place Ah could stay." Grandmother was wanting to make a school teacher out of Janie's mother. Janie found out that a school teacher rapped her mother so she never met her father either. Janie's mother was seventeen, when she was pregnant with Janie. After Janie was born, Janie's mother took to drinking a lot. Janie ... kin by you. Ah raked and scraped and bought dis lil piece uh land so you wouldn't have to stay in de white folk's yard and tuck yo' head befor' other chillun at school." When Janie turned sixteen years of age, her childhood had ended with a kiss from a boy named Johnny Taylor. Grandmother wanted to see her married at once but Janie did not understand what ...
- 1884: The Real Issue Of Youth Violence
- The Real Issue Of Youth Violence Many people are quick to make accusations why the children of this age are doomed. Recently, with the high school shootings, people are pointing figures to determine what has caused the recent outbreak of "youth violence." It doesn't seem like that youth violence has happened to this extent at any age throughout the history ... what is on the screen is for fun, and it is not to be done off the screen. Video games actually act as a release. If there is trouble in the home or problems in school, one has the opportunity to play a video game to displace anger; much like beating up a pillow. "'But such claims (why video games cause violence) are bases on more on popular wisdom than ...
- 1885: Religion in Jane Eyre
- ... The Reed children, in contrast, are treated completely opposite. Although John Reed is cruel and vicious to Jane, he receives no type of warning that God will punish him. The novel proceeds to Lowood, a school designed to educate and care for orphaned children. Mrs. Reed decides to send Jane there after the doctor, Mr. Lloyd, advises her that Jane should attend school. Mrs. Reed is glad to be rid of Jane and asks Jane not to wake the family the day of her departure. Jane arrives at Lowood and observes the behavior of the students. They are "all with plain locks combed from their faces, not a curl visible; in brown dresses, made high, and surrounded by a narrow tucker about the throat"(49). The day is long and all students must wake up at dawn and read the Bible for hours at a time. One day, Miss ...
- 1886: The Relation Between Abuse Neg
- ... all sorts of forms, upon themselves and others. They now hold no fear in defying society. I am gathering some of my data from my own experiences (and others soon to follow) from the Perkins School (Lancaster). This school is a home for the time being for abused children and adolescents. They try to teach the individuals how society works and what is accepted and behavior adjustments. This school does not try to cure them, but to help them understand and deal with their difficulties. The remaining part of my research came from journal articles and books. In my findings, I am implying ...
- 1887: Television Violence
- ... such garbage off themselves(4). Another argument for the television stations is that children here violent terms and see violence any way so why take it off the air. This argument states that children at school hear such terms as "drop dead out-fit ", and " break a leg " so why stop it on television . They also state that at schools children see fighting and hate between other students so why don't people try and ban violence at school before they try to ban anything else(1). Television stations also fight that there is no substantial evidence saying that violence on television directly effects the way people and children act, and until there is ... youth of today before the problem gets to big. In conclusion, I hope that this information given can help show the problems with television violence. It is said that by the time children graduate from high school they would have seen eight-teen thousand murders or other violent acts on television(10). That is to many acts of violence to not effect the way children or adults behave. There must ...
- 1888: Child Abuse
- ... have also found that not only the physical effect of the abuse, but also the long term effect that will occur later on in life. Physically abused children were found to be less attentive in school and more inclined to have hostile attributes. They are also less likely to manage personal problems and stress. Abused and neglected children from poor social skills that will affect not only them, but the others ... adults and parents. The child might be destructive to themselves and other people around them. Also, extreme behaviors from aggressiveness to withdrawn. A child could attain poor social relations and learning problems and problems with school. They could run away or have delinquent behavior. Physical aggression and antisocial behavior are among the most common outcomes of physical abuse. Some studies have shown that physically abused children show more aggression than maltreated ... trust adults. They might also have anger and aggression toward people. The child may exhibit inappropriate sexual behavior. A child might suffer from depression, guilt and shame. More than likely, they will have problems in school and social skills. Also, the child may have phobic or avoidant behavior and regressive behavior.(National Research Council,215) Consciences of neglectful behavior can be severe and powerful in early childhood development. Also, lack ...
- 1889: John Harlan
- ... to the United States upon completion in 1923. After returning from England, Harlan began working for a law office in New York. At the same time, he was studying law at the New York Law School. In 1925 Harlan received his law degree and was admitted to the New York bar. In 1931 John Marshall Harlan II became a partner in the firm he'd begun working in while attending law school, and spent much of his early career working for the firm. Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 ... year later, Eisenhower nominated Harlan to the Supreme Court. On March 16, 1955, the U.S. Senate confirmed Eisenhower's appointment of Harlan 71 to 11, and Harlan began his sixteen year term in the High Court. Harlan has often been called the "intellectual leader of the conservatives on the Court." Harlan was known to clash with the other members of the liberal Warren Court, often authoring the dissenting opinion ...
- 1890: Sir Robert Laird Borden
- ... Laird Borden Sir Robert Laird Borden was born on June 26, 1954 in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia to Andrew and Eunice Jane Laird Borden. Robert grew up in the Gaspereau Valley and attended the local school know as the Acacia Villa Seminary where he excelled in Latin, Greek, and math. Due to his outstanding achievements throughout his school years, in 1869, when Robert was only 14 years old, he became a teacher at the Acacia Villa Seminary. Then, in 1873, Robert accepted a teaching position in Matawan, New Jersey, where he taught for one year. Robert returned to Canada in 1974 to become a lawyer and, due to the fact that Nova Scotia had no law school, h estudied law as a clerk in a Halifax law firm. After Robert was admitted to the bar in 1878, he practiced law in both Halifax and then in Kentville, Nova Scotia. In 1882, ...
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